| Show CENT OM E 8 IN d IS at df jath ath of feet went i akia 1 well near Thomp thompson sons aa m monday with a flow of oil to be the greatest creat cst ever en n 0 altered in n the state of utah so go teat at we ass the pressure pre aure of the oil and a that the tool tools were blown up the 10 a considerable distance dit tance and oil id nd mud were forced out of the hole bole id over the crown block after the till strike made two week weeks ago ag o t drill WM was sent through the sana and slum or a distance of fifty feet 4 e illera drillers dr being prepared for a aber her af at an any moment monday morn 1 bif vif f s driller ig er F W strong vms wo on the well blew in rock and mud yen er forced up the hole bole by the pros pres an are end and bridged around the tool tools alch became stuck about twenty ett tt off bottom in pite spite of the ob the gas afa pressure pru ure continued continue 4 0 force oil out of ithe the well and it 11 fell pray around the rie ric A control atra w which chich had been in place for me time in anticipation of such a envelopment was set and kept uie the w j pressure a in control this was aary to prevent fire ax as the wind ii as toward the boiler in spite of he bridge in the hole which un holds a large part of the as and nd oil pres procure gure back the dauee n the e control regist registers erd at gaug I 1 a ile boiler Is of the estatio stationary n ary type j nd cannot be moved back in iee less haa i a week time and und for thi this ason ion the drillers are proceeding ith i caution in fishing epe operations rations I 1 a tue tuesday day an effort was made to isaoore the tools but proved hunsuc I 1 awful the cab cable vt aa a then cut above he tools toola to permit a fishing string einz sent down yesterday dryers I 1 tannehill and F W V strong were LJ n moab to a rope pear spear ft t the local garage and talar an atit it i being made to jar the tools YC vae 0 desm Tann chil ani strong bid ad not anticipate much trouble in firing he tole aa each fach time ahe lh contro control hei i is r ivied to pern t ti buhi idriz all i W he ras sprays oil over the rig am and pe rations can colv be bo cr curried en cn r ag hoi aen the vid v id is in he the tight d di edion 0 so o gru is the darice dan of it f fb ye I 1 wa that the weil is full of ol 01 01 is V g n rilly believed to be ane case al a hough no announcement has ben nade concerning probable production jehl the tools and other obstruct ona on are cleared it VH not be known ie finitely just what the flow amounts 9 0 there is no doubt however that big tig producer has been brought in nd d that the grand county oil field fields aye given utah its greater oil ril the crescent eagle oni pan has aced a guard avard the camp and 10 visitors are allowed on the ies s A censorship has also been es Ablis blushed bli shed hed and it Is difficult to secure information oi nation regarding the letues tails of the strike oilmen by the score core are rushing to the Cre crescent went lein ity representatives of most of ahe w large companies being in the feid it is reported that a number of I 1 large M companies have already ob I 1 tallied acreage throughout abe he die dis ancl while the flit oil sand has not been bon identified it is believed to V bf the dakota for the past fifty peel led since the strike was reported two weeke ago the drill has h penetrated penetrated a sand sandy v shale stratum au all of if it carrying oil and gas in corn bial mercial quantities ac according cording to the willen dr illers the bottom of the and sand has it yet it been reached most of the directors and official officials a of the crescent eagle engle compi compiano com any are w at the well it Is reported that ij oni on of the big St standard andarA companies Is negotiating with them for a drill TZ proposition S 7 ir it fa re DOtted unofficially ta bodny ay M the ulah utah oil refining company subsidiary has taken over C the 1 crescent eagle holdings under a finning and will take 1 charge of operations next monday idle effle thia this report has not been veri verl t fled w it la is given credence by the fact that at john W howard president ent of the ID utah compiano comp compi tony any together with four war or five geologist geologists and officials of the con concern cem have been in the th field I 1 for r a couple of days and they have bave I 1 J been we in in consultation with crescent w aide officials offic rals i the development of this wel week waa was ane culmination of pf about four year years tonai stent and persi effort on the part of the crescent eagle corn PY to reach a producing sand even anor to that there had been consider able work ork done b by Y some of those nw now entert 4 1141 in he the in company the of way the ground drilled end and a congi considerable deable acreage surrounding 5 U I 1 it was wa taken n under the old 0 11 d placer act which was wits t in oil proa pros pectin prior to the he enactment of the leasing bill the ground still 1 Is held under the placer act the interior I 1 department havin havian g ruled that placer location 10 eions on which work had been kept up are valid where leuch such location loca t ions were nude made prior to tai the enactment of the leasing feigin law the of oil ground under the placer act is decidedly more ad vAn vantanus tagus to the prospector than ac ae ne ulli tion under the lerinc lessI nir act t for I 1 the reason that there are no royalty charges due the gov eminent the CrescentE beatle aisIe Is a ulah utah corn 1 pany financed by salt lake men some of the principal owner owners of crescent earle eagle also control the mountain state states development company the gound controlled by compana the crescent Cree cent eagle wee wn leased from the mountain states which also controls bonsmer I 1 able acreage around that of the crescent eagle the mountain states at 1 is a heavy stockholder in the crescent crent easle eagle le Amon fhe principal steel gwi holder holders in the two companie companies are F I 1 W spencer president cf of the corn I 1 pany george A steiner nice pres j dent II 11 C alien allen secret secretary try tressor j er W U F reader C C perk perkin perkins ins and george R randall moat most of f the bigger companies op aerating in the rocky mountain re I 1 pion liae bae been inclined to tive give the crescent field a wide berth especially capt hag has this been true since fail ure after failure was reports in oil te in the southeastern out heastern oart of the state but even prior lo 10 comple tion of of the teat tests the foists generally pene rally looked disfavor on cre crescent recent on the ground that they could not find a closed structure rudure rt since oil began to nse rise in the hole about ten dasa da or twe tuo week meeks ago age however hovi ever representative of some of the companies have been div ng ina the field detailed dr do stud tuda what althe hae haie determined dut has not been made pubic c but mort of them who have been reported es as commenting at all are understood to have accept ed condition in the well as decidedly favorable to production if the clevent ha has developed deve loved a florinc well ell it undoubtedly undoubted aill ill mean a of the geology reo loey of oil oc currence 1 in roan man districts of south batern utah and that e berv erv section tec tion I 1 1 wll be combed with the care I 1 with ith the hope of finding new neni fields |
